Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

I'm building a cocobolo guitar for a guy in Q/land. Had nothing but trouble all the way along. 1st set of coco split. Got another set from RC tonewoods, much nicer and no splits like the set my customer supplied. Gluing is a real pain i've had to reglue several joints because of the oil in the timber and that's after using acetone to wipe the surfaces, anyway it's all together now just have to install tuners and set it up. I don't think i'll be using coco again. Wayne

Very Impressive Wayne, I like your choice of binding, very tasty

The Coco looks good despite your problems.
I agree with Tod about the binding.
What other timbers did you use?

I used Adirondack spruce for the soundboard and Koa for bindings and end graft. I used Ebony for fretboard and bridge. I installed the tuners, nut and saddle today, strung it up all seems good got a nice tone to it. Just needs to be unstrung so i can polish the nut and saddle, steel wool and oil the fretboard and polish the guitar, when i'm done i'll post some finished photos. Wayne

Looking Forward to more Pic's Wayne . Any chance that you could post some sound files, I would love to hear it.

sorry , I forgot , do you have any pics of the braceing.

Tod i hope to have a video of the guitar being played, which i'll put on youtube and then leave a link, i have 3 of my guitars on youtube, it helps when trying to sell them. Wayne

G'day Wayne.
Nice work mate.
What are the holes in the neck block?
Do you 'pin' the neck to the body?

Hi Craig, yes i pin the neck with 2 tapered pins 1 from each side, the holes are reamed with a tapered reamer and pins are made to suit, works well, also makes it a bit easier to remove neck if need be. Wayne